Saturday 23 June 2012

Biocode Commons at the GSC14 Hackathon

There will be two hackathon tracks at the GSC14 Conference in Oxford from Sep 19th through 21st. 

The first hackathon will happen from Wednesday afternoon and all day Thursday and will create an ontology to track collecting events, samples, organisms, sequences, and identifications related to Ocean Sampling Day activities for 2013. This workshop will extend the DwC/MIxS integration workshop from February, 2012 and the Semantics of Biodiversity Workshop from May, 2012.

The second hackathon will happen on Friday the 21st and will be hosted in conjunction with MicroB3, focusing on Field Information Management Systems, including:

  • A format for common data validation. 
  • Getting applications to adopt minimum standards (MCI, MISC, etc...) and exploring common APIs etc..
  • GUID assignment --- developing common/expected formats and standards for identifiers 
  • Exchange formats (e.g MIxS profile from GBIF, others) for rapid publication to various sources (GBIF, NCBI, BOLD, GOLD, etc...) 
  • Defining Webservice endpoints for data synchronisation among FIMS

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